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Throughout his 40-plus-year career, actor Michael Douglas personified the modern male in film, as a sensitive youth rebelling against authority, as a middle-aged man grappling with problems of marriage, career and changing times, and as an older adult, still seeking a late-in-life kick or two. But now Douglas is playing another role, one filled with pride and nostalgia, as he looks back to his beginnings and to a place that shaped him as an actor and a producer. At a gala fundraiser in New York on Monday, April 16, Douglas will receive the Monte Cristo Award from the Eugene O'NeillTheater Center in Waterford. It's an institution where Douglas, as a college student without...

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